Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner’s desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker’s career in this documentary, using Arzner’s trove of photographs, as well as interviews with her leading lady Esther Ralston, to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

47 minutes

Year:

1983

Director:

Katja Raganelli

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Company:

Diorama Films

Cast:
Eva Mattes

Narrator

Heidi Treutler

Narrator

Crew:
Katja Raganelli

Director

Richard Handerson

Sound

Carl H. Aussem

Sound

Alexander Rupp

Editor

Konrad Wickler

Producer